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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: March 23, 1938
Name: Leonard Ward
Post Office: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Residence Address:725 West Reno
Date of Birth:
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Field Worker: Jimmie Birdwell
Volume 95, Microfiche #6016960

I came into this country from Kansas in 1895 in a wagon.  I had rented a farm and was about ten miles west of McAlester.  Our houses were not very good and we did not have any farming tools.  I had a breaking plow, and a Georgia stock.  There was only one other breaking plow in our neighborhood.   There were about a half dozen of us men who swapped tools around so we could farm.  We did not raise anything for the market. We did not have any market so we just tried to raise a living, which was not always easy.  Three things we always had plenty of was milk, meat, and corn bread, and I want to tell you that those three thing were the food of almost every farmer.

Of course we had some fruit and berries.  There were plenty of berries and wild plums, growing wild, and there were a good many Indian peaches.

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Gay Wall <t31892@wind.imbris.com> November 2000.